I love this novel and allot of reviews i see are bad because the author is racist against America and Japan. I can't speak much about why he is racist against America but for Jjapan I understand. For the longest time I wondered why allot of Chinese authors hated japan since in there books they always portrayed Japanese people as the scum of the earth, till I actually did some research.If you actually look up what Japan has done to china in the past, you would be surprised. Like the Nanking Massacre aka the Rape of Nanking. During world war 2 the Japanese Armed forces brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of Chinese soldiers and civilians. (basically prisoners). They also raped between 20,000 and 80,000 women. Japan never took any prisoners during the war. If you surrendered they killed you, if you were a girl they would rape you.They even used poison gas on the Chinese (like mustered gas). Even after Japan signed international treaties saying it wouldn't use poison gas, but they still did secretly on battlefields in Asia, they committed allot of war crimes. To add fuel to the fire Japan for the longest time has not even acknowledged that these things took place, even with all the evidence that was stacked against them. Last I heard was that the Japanese citizens had urged the government to acknowledge the World War II crimes. I don't know if they government has or hasn't apologized, But again its there governments fault. Its a shame that allot of Chinese people hate Japan and there people. Since allot of Japanese people don't feel the same way now that they did back then. Yeah it happened along time ago, you may even just say to them to "just get over it, it happened along time ago". But that could be said for allot of events that happened in the past like the Holocaust, or even slavery in America. You wouldn't just tell them to "get over it
